Chiappon house

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House Frauenstrasse 7 in Dresden, elevation
Chiapponisches Haus (left, new building, 2018)

The Chiapponisches Haus (also Chabonisches Haus) at Frauenstrasse 7 in Dresden was a residential building that was named after the Chiapponi family, who owned the house at least at the beginning of the 19th century. It was built by Samuel Locke in 1761 and destroyed in 1945.

As part of the reconstruction of the Neumarkt area in Quartier VI on Frauenstraße, it is planned that the Dinglingerhaus (No. 9) will be reconstructed as a lead building with facade and floor plan, while the other buildings such as the Chiapponisches Haus will only be rebuilt with the reconstructed facade without the floor plan being restored.

History and description

After Stefan Hertzig , the house was largely rebuilt in 1761, replacing two buildings destroyed in the Prussian bombardment of the Seven Years' War . Oberland master builder Julius Heinrich Schwarze names the "Italian merchant Japoni / Chiappone" as the client .

According to Hertzig, the bay window of the building can still come from a previous building, while in addition to written notes by Samuel Locke, the rest of the facade design and the layout of the floor plan speak for a new building after 1760. Gurlitt and with him the older researchers named the construction date around 1740, but without giving any evidence.

Six plans, presumably destroyed in 1945 and photographed by then, showed Locke's design.

facade

The four-storey house was heavily modified on the two lower floors, especially with shop fittings, so that in 1945 only the third and fourth floors had the original rococo facade. The facade drawing shows the original design of the 18th century. The ground floor was rusticated with segmental arched doors and windows, while the facade of the upper floors was structured by nine closely lined up window axes with illusionistically painted mirrors. Above the windows of the second and eighth axis and the bay window in the center of the building there were roofs on the first and second floors, on the third floor shell ornaments were placed above the windows in these axes.

On the ground floor, windows and portals alternated in only five axes, with the middle window being a bit wider - probably as a kind of shop window for the Italian shop. The two entrances were not located under the window axes accentuated by the roofing, but between them and the bay window in the middle that took up the first and second floors.

The facade of the upper floors was structured by plastered pilaster strips that took up the narrow space between the tall rectangular windows, and square and rectangular fields below the windows. The two axes, highlighted by roofs, were also emphasized by ornaments under the triangular roofs on the first and the segment roofs on the second floor.

Since the second and eighth window axes seem to protrude slightly from the structure, Hertzig refers to these as the central axis of the house as “ risalit axes ”. The windows of these axes on the third floor were crowned by shells framed by chains of flowers. The central axis was additionally emphasized by Doric and Corinthian pilasters , which are visible in photographs from the 20th century, but were not yet present in drawings from the 18th century.

According to the drawing from the time it was built, the oriel roof should have a decorative vase with freely hanging flowers. In fact, an arbor with oval openings was built. The mansard roof had dormers above each window axis and four dormers in the upper slope.

inside rooms

Inside the Chiapponian house, all the rooms are grouped around a large, almost square courtyard. There were two shops on the first floor, the larger one to the left of the hallway and the smaller one to the right. Both shops also had back rooms, the left shop also had its own staircase to the first floor and two vaulted storage rooms and a horse stable with drinking troughs in the left side building.

The living rooms on the upper floors were reached via a three-flight staircase. A vestibule with three window axes to the inner courtyard led to three large and roughly the same size living rooms, each with three window axes facing Frauenstrasse, equipped with stoves. Five further rooms, also equipped with stoves, were connected in the form of an enfilade in the left side building and partly in the rear building. The kitchen, servants' rooms and toilets were in the rear building and in the right side building.

Owners and residents

The Chiapponi family owned the building from at least 1817-1820, although it remains unclear whether and for how long the builder "Japoni", named by Schwarze, owned the house. However, the available sources state that the “merchant and purveyor to the court” Karl Franz Chiapponi is located on the ground floor. In 1804 a Mr. Engelhardt is given as the owner, in the address books from 1837 to 1840 "Moretti's heirs". From 1850 on, the Seidel family of gardeners , who had gained fortune and reputation through breeding camellias , owned the house, whose address had been Mittlere Frauengasse 9 since 1841. Jacob Friedrich Seidel (1789–1860), son of the royal Saxon court gardener Johann Heinrich Seidel (1744–1815), his widow Rosa and his son, the important azalea and rhododendron breeder Traugott Jacob Hermann Seidel (1833–1896), followed as owners of the Chiapponian house, the last owner from this family was Minna Sidonie Seidel, Hermann's widow. From 1922 on, a Dresden laundry factory, Jacoby & Sohn, was the owner of the house. The company had already occupied several floors.

literature

  • Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V., Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 155-158 .

Web links

Commons : Chiapponisches Haus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ for example in the address book of 1792, Dresden for the useful knowledge of its houses and their inhabitants , p. 49 lists: “Chiappone, Karl Franz, ital. Kaufm. U. Hofliefr., D. gr. Frg. [Frauenstrasse was Grosse Frauengasse at the time] No. 397. The shop has just that. "
  2. ^ A b c d Stefan Hertzig : The late Baroque town house in Dresden 1738–1790 . Society of Historical Neumarkt Dresden e. V. , Dresden 2007, ISBN 3-9807739-4-9 , pp. 157 .
  3. ^ Quartier VI. (No longer available online.) Gesellschaft Historischer Neumarkt Dresden e. V., archived from the original on January 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 28, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.neumarkt-dresden.de
  4. ^ Stefan Hertzig; Walter May ; Henning Prinz : The historic Neumarkt in Dresden: its history and its buildings . Sandstein, Dresden 2005, ISBN 3-937602-46-1 , p. 95 .
  5. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 716: “[…] a good architecture from around 1740” ( online ).
  6. ↑ Cornelius Gurlitt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony . Volume 23: City of Dresden, Part 2. In Commission at CC Meinhold & Söhne, Dresden 1903, p. 716: “[…] Original plans created by Locke”: Collection of King Friedrich Augusts, No. 97255–59 and 97229. The whereabouts of these Plans are unknown; they are seen as a loss of war ( online ).
  7. ↑ Dresden for useful knowledge of its houses and their inhabitants. Address book from 1797, p. 96. The last name is written here with a final "e".
  8. ^ Address directory Dresden. Dresden, 1804, p. 32.
  9. ↑ among others in: Königl. Saxon licensed Dresden address calendar. P. 294.
  10. ^ To be found in all Dresden address books from 1850 to 1921.
  11. ↑ among other things: Address book for Dresden and suburbs 1921/1922. , Part V., p. 219.

Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 3.5 ″  N , 13 ° 44 ′ 23 ″  E